Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-08-05
BRIEFS.

Roasting ears sell at 10 cents Dozen
the new advertisements this
week. oor,s .
quart. ~ 49,
Nearly all of the bridge hands have
left town. 49,
r,o supreme Court of Appeals will
.,i, Charlestown September 9TH.
Tho small boys are putting in their
"a time fighting bumblebees' nests.
Mr. J. ;. Fleming has just received
.ao,ber lot of Domestic sewing ma
;giY.. .,.,
Ssge Beckwith will hold special
...m If the Circuit Court at Charles
town to-day
Tho Changers at Swan Pond made
,hort eighty dollars at their lawn festi-
val last week.
The West Virginia Press Association
ill meet in Berkeley Springs on Tues
dav. August 23d.
Mr. J. II. little has been very sick
hiring the past week. He is improving
in health now.
TIE Martinsburg DAILY Gazette has
HON discontinued. After short "life's
s,frI fever it sleeps we'll"
new advertisement of Mrs. A. Rose
Daughter, dealers in shoes, Hagers-
town, appears in this weeks paper.
Instruction given in music by Miss
Mamie Mcdaniel, pupil of Prof. Allen,
ofthe Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Eutter has been very scarce here for
ds mast week or two, and the price has
reqn raised to twenty cents pound.
The Missionary Society of the Luth-
Gran church will hold a meeting Satur-
lay afternoon at o'clock in the church.
The Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad is re-
.renching in expenses by reducing the
hours Of working and by other means.
The Sunday School of the NJ. E.
Church South will have its picnic at
the Big Spring on Thursday next, Au.
gust lllh.
Mr.. C.. J. Roberts, of Shenandoah
Junction. has accepted situation in
the store of Nj. j. Ran. Rocrick, at
Charlcstown.
Senator Kenna was the guest of Hon.
CD. Faulkner last Saturday, and was
,rrenaded by the MaItinSburg band
Friday night.
Mr Thomas j. Hensell, aged 76, an
old citizen of Winchester, died last
week. lie had been in business there
for fifty years.
Mr.. John L. King, Shenandoah Valley
telegraph operator, has been moved
from shenandoah junction to WaynCs
boro Junction.
\ Shepherdstown girl defends herself
Tor the size Of her hustle by saying that
she isn't responsible for what goes on
behind her back.
Read carefully the article from
MoIcr's Cross Roads this week. They
will have grand exhibition and all
should take part in it.
None Of the daily papers were re-
ccivtd in SLcpherdstown on Wednesday,
owing to somebody's carelessness. The
subscribers seemed lost.
The time for the picnic Of the Re
formed Sunday school has been changed
To- Friday, August 18th. 1t will be held
al Mr. Lemen's Big Spring.
There has not been much improve
mcut in The weather, so far as it relates
10 the heat, since our last issue. The
thermometer still remains very near the
top
The annual Harvest Home" of the
VI. +. Church Was held at JOnrsS
Swug, about thee miles west Of Shop.
herd>,owu on Thursday. 1t was very
pleasant occasion.
The colored band and the choir of the
cOlofed Methodist church will hold a
lawn festival in Shepherdstown on
Thursday, Friday aud Saturday even
Ing, OF next week.
The Board of Education of Harper'S
Ferry district intends to build Il new
school-aouse on Boundary street, in
Hupcrs Ferry. Proposals are yer.
li,ed Tor in this issue.
The damage to the canal by the breaks
iast week was greater than first report
ed, and navigation has not yet been re-
sumed. It may he some days yet before
the damage is repaired.
Mr. VIM. IL. BY ers, whose barn was
Oulhl last week, was wise enough 10
have hi, property well insured. We are
informed that he had 81 $50 insurance
oh the barn aud contents.
Some smart fellow has discovered a
Wa 10 count bananas accurately while
HEY are on the bunch. lie sticks piL
~ each banana, aud counts the pins
"hcn he takes them ont again.
The weather in this locality has just
oeen exactly right for the corn, and it
Is growing splendidly. In fact some
hrId> of corn are already made, and
There is every hope for big crop.
Mr.. George A. Huntington, for
several years Washington correspondent
Ol the Wheeling InfeUi1eucer. has been